Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Washington last week leaked out a significant bit of good tidings for U.S. civilians. WPB's Office of Civilian Requirements has quietly made a deal with the Army to borrow from its vast supplies to ease any sudden civilian goods shortage...
...borrowed enough to ease the civilian shortage, will pay back the yardage from its own allotment. In cases in which the Army has no such surplus OCR will borrow plant output, turn over to the Army OCR's allotment of output later...
Phelps's Whitney Avenue house, with its Irish setters, cats and parrots, was always open to New Havenites. They came to talk and borrow the books he recommended. For years his T. & B. course (Tennyson & Browning) met in four sections of 150 students each-including athletes who knew Phelps would not readily flunk a contributor to Yale's glory...
...There was no way to take a typewriter over the mountains to the front, so to write a story we had to tramp all the way back to the beach, board a ship, then borrow a typewriter. After that we had to walk back an hour or more to G-2 headquarters for censoring...
...Cardinal told Italians to cherish their "Latin civilization . . . fused with Christianity." Declared he: "Politically, as from the religious standpoint, Italy has no need to take and borrow her faith and her social system from other peoples...